Militiamen trained in the Escambray mountains while superpowers tested each other’s resolve. The background in this composite image is from a U-2 photo of Cuba ...

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Kennedy was going to make the case that the weapons were a menace to the entire world, he would need better pictures ... offensive weapons in Cuba. As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak ...

Fidel Castro took control of Cuba. Political and economic tension rose between Cuba and the USA. Castro ordered that American-owned businesses on Cuba would be taken over. The US Government ...

This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a corrupt right-wing dictatorship, and took power in Cuba.

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... an American spy plane on a mission over Cuba fell off the radar. Robert Caro, Writer: You hear the ...